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20th November, 2008

Posts Tagged ‘BT’

Alfred E. Newman Strikes Again

By Denis Campbell • Aug 4th, 2008 • Category: Business
Most consider it an honour to be pilloried by Mad Magazine’s “Usual Bunch of Idiots.” Everyone from the current Dark Night Batman movie to Harry Potter has been skewered by their classic satiric style. It’s good fun. That is until Al and friends messed with the gang at Circuit City.
One could not, until noon today, [...]


Buy a Car Get a Free Handgun

By Denis Campbell • Aug 2nd, 2008 • Category: Business
The BBC reported a Missouri, USA car dealership offered a promotion where if one buys a car or truck, they can get either $250 in petrol vouchers or a free handgun. UK laws forbidding gun ownership aside for the moment, if they were to change, could this be a marketing opportunity for businesses in the [...]


Bring Back Uncle Walter’s Way!

By Denis Campbell • Jul 20th, 2008 • Category: Innovators
 (Reprise post from 31 May)
In 1966, five years before the opening of his crown jewell theme park in Orlando, Walt Disney succumbed to cancer. His service legacy lives on through the Disney Institute where executives from around the globe come to embrace the Disney ethos and, in theory, bring Walt’s Way to their businesses.
Walt ensured [...]


Still Waiting to Hear from Ben

By Denis Campbell • May 8th, 2008 • Category: Business
About two months ago I wrote an article for the Welsh national newspaper asking CEO Ben Verwaayen about the horrifically bad service BT provides. Now it seems they and the industry are in a spot of trouble for the 0870 number scheme where you pay between .10 and .50 pence per minute for YOU to call [...]